USA - December 29 2011
On Friday, December 23, 2011, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released for the first time a memorandum signed by Virginia A. Seitz, the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, dated September 20, 2011, responding to two different inquiries — one from two state lotteries and one from two U.S. Senators — about the applicability of the Wire Act (18 U.S.C. § 1084) to intrastate sales of lottery tickets on the Internet.
USA - September 16 2011
Last week, President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to announce his latest plan to stabilize the U.S. economy and return Americans to work.
USA - August 12 2011
In recent weeks, much of the nation’s attention was focused on the negotiations between the White House and Congress over the conditions under which Congress would pass legislation to raise the federal government’s statutory borrowing authority.
USA - November 3 2010
Though the final results of several close races will not be known for days, and in some cases weeks, yesterday's elections yielded significant gains for Republicans at both the federal and state level.
USA - December 10 2009
On Friday, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Fed) and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) announced that they will extend by six months the compliance date for the regulations issued pursuant to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).
